Morning Roundup - Feria III infra Hebdomadam I Adventus - December 1st, 2015

• Aleteia (John Burger) >> Welcome to the Church of CrossFit, Part of America’s Growing Secular Spirituality
• A Priest Life (Fr. Kevin Cusick) >> Christmas Novena begins today: text of prayer recited daily 15 times until
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Pope Francis opens the Year of Mercy (in advance)
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Pope Francis on “practitioners of forgiveness, specialists in reconciliation, experts in mercy”
• Canterbury Tales (Dr. Taylor Marshall) >> Top 10 Manly Christmas Gifts for Men (2015 Edition)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Staff Reporter) >> Pope Francis named PETA Person of the Year
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Edward Condon) >> Pope Francis has chosen Africa over Germany
• Catholic Sacristan (Isten Joe) >> Advent(ure)
• Charlotte was Both (Amy Welborn) >> Charles de Foucauld
• Clutching My Rosary >> Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Five Brief Advent Reflections
• Cosmos + Sun (Fr. Mark White) >> A St.-Andrew-Day Story to Tell 
• Courageous Priest (John Quinn) >> Are Liberals are Repulsed by the Cassock?
• Crisis Magazine (Regis Martin) >> “Who Do They Say I Am?”
• Crisis Magazine (William Kilpatrick) >> Medina—The First Muslim Refugee Resettlement Program
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Powell, OP) >> A more perfect knowledge of God
• Dominicana Journal  (Br. Jordan Zajac, O.P.) >> The Eternal Present: Advent and Time Orientation
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Browsing in Byzantium: a lesson (1) in very simple liturgical Greek
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Why the Martyrs of Uganda were killed
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Teaching Death to Nursing Students with Leo Tolstoy
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Edward Pentin) >> 10 Highlights from Pope Francis' Inflight Press Conference from Africa
• OnePeterFive (Steve Skojec) >> The Perils of Popularity: Critiquing Bishop Barron
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Vacuity: Have we reached rock bottom?
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Event: Rorate Masses Live Online during Advent
• Sacred Ground And Sticky Floors (Jami Amerine) >> A journey of a thousand miles begins with cranberry jello… 
• St. Corbinian's Bear >> Pope Bows to Mecca -- Why It's a Big Thing
• The Catholic Thing (Hadley Arkes) >> Judges and Their Occupational Hazards
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> St. Eligius – Dec. 1
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Jonathan Byrd) >> Francis and the Lutheran – Fr. David Nix
• Views From the Choir Loft (Jeff Ostrowski) >> Changing The Good Friday Prayer For The Jews